play and leisure in occupational therapy

1. LEISURE AND PLAY
INTEREST CHECKLIST

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• OUTLINE LEISURE ACTIVITY APPROPRIATE
FOR PALLIATIVE CARE SETTING
• GENERATE LEISURE/ ROLE/ INTEREST
CHECKLIST FOR PALLIATIVE CARE CLIENTS

3. PLAY /LEISURE
• Described as choosing, performing, and engaging in activities
for amusement, relaxation,enjoyment, and/ or self-expression
• Play and leisure actvities are to be enjoyed and are
fundamentally creative activities.
• In palliative care with children, play is a valuable for expression
and channelling energy (connectingn and communicating)

4. PLAY
• Play can be used as a therapy to maintain or develop new skills.
• When an adult talks of play it is understood to be fun activity and
light-hearted, for pleasure and enjoyment
• Play is seriously and deeply important to a child : strengthens
the body, improve the mind, develop the personality and acquire
social competence
• Play engages the child totally and involves the emotions of a
child

5. • Play is a outlet for expression, essentially creative and
enables children to learn, explore, try things out, use
the imagination and understand aspects of the world
around them
• Types of play: active play, exploratory and manipulative
play, imitative play, constructive play, make-believe or
imaginative play, games with rules and recreational
leisure pursuits

6. LEISURE
• Nonobligatory activity that is intrinsically motivated and
engaged in duting discretionary time, that is, time not
committed to obligatory occupations such as work, self-
care, or sleep

7. LEISURE
• Developement of a play into leisure pursuits and the
importance of recreational activity for the adult
including young adult
• Individual cultivates interests and hobbies, some with
specific skill and knowledge acquisition through life.
• Enquiring about peoples interests may be identifying a
dimension of what has given meaning and purpose to
their life.

8. OUTLINE LEISURE ACTIVITYAPPROPRIATE FOR
PALLIATIVE CARE SETTING
Interest
Games
Hobby
Play

9. OUTLINE LEISURE ACTIVITYAPPROPRIATE FOR
PALLIATIVE CARE SETTING
Indoor
• Board games
• Carrom
• Chess
• Dum
• Snake and ladder
• Monopoly
• etc
Out door
• Fishing
• Gardening
• Swimming
• Cycling
• Bird watching
• Hiking
• etc

10. FACILITATING WAYS FOR CLIENTS TO
PARTICIPATE IN ENJOYABLE
LEISURE/PLAY/COMMUNITYACTIVITIES AMONG
PALLIATIVE CARE CLIENTS
• Serious leisure vs casual leisure
• Group activity/ card or board games
• Recreational
• Social gathering
• Modification to certain activiites
• Energy conservation
• Respect to pain

11. • Choosing activity that meaningful to the client
• Integrate leisure or social participation as a part of
rehabilitation
• Engagement in leisure and social activities brings
greater life satisfaction, quality of life, and well-being
than independent performance of basic ADL tasks
does
• Explore, in collaboration with the client, leisure and
social activities of importance, gently advocating that
leisure and social participation can be a significant part
of recovery

12. • OT practitioners begin with evaluation process by
creating an occupational profile; that includes a focus
on the meaning of leisure and social activities in the
clients life.
• Evaluation process includes an analysis of
occupational performance that should include the
clients ability to participate in desired leisure and social
activities, including supports and hinders his or hers
ability.

13. • interests-checklist.pdf
• intchecklist.pdf
• maTSUYU INTERST CHECK LIST.pdf
• Interest checklist guidance.pdf
• interest checklist OT.pdf

14. 1. GENERATE LEISURE/ ROLE/ INTEREST CHECKLIST FOR PALLIATIVE
CARE CLIENTS
2. PLAN DAILY/WEEKLY ACTIVITY PROGRAMME FOR PALLIATIVE CARE
CLIENTS